individualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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individualizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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individualized,
past participle, past
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individualizing
present participle
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to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
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to mention, indicate, or consider individually; specify; particularize.
verb
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to make or mark as individual or distinctive in character
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to consider or treat individually; particularize
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to make or modify so as to meet the special requirements of a person
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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individualizesimple
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individualizessimple
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have individualizedperfect
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has individualizedperfect
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am individualizingprogressive
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are individualizingprogressive
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is individualizingprogressive
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have been individualizingperfect progressive
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has been individualizingperfect progressive
Past
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individualizedsimple
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had individualizedperfect
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was individualizingprogressive
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were individualizingprogressive
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had been individualizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of individualize
First recorded in 1630–40; individual + -ize
Example Sentences
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“They want to institutionalize it rather than individualize it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
The researchers hope that the results of this study will help to identify elbow injuries in children who play baseball and to individualize treatment based on skeletal maturity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
“It helps to humanize and individualize the vastness of the Holocaust and personalize history that is sometimes only communicated through statistics,” she added.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
The work is part of an approach to cancer treatment called de-escalation: an effort to individualize treatment to a specific subtype of the disease, achieving the same results with less treatment and fewer interventions.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Somehow we should be able to individualize these voices and to give them an artistic expression in some kind of human composition.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Until learning how our financial systems work, I took for granted the way our culture individualizes money.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
While golfers can provide launch monitor numbers as part of the interview process with Callaway’s Distance Fitting, Vrska said it is the one-on-one interaction that refines and individualizes the recommendations.
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
Lee, rescuing the production with his veteran caginess, sharply individualizes Stokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2018
“Archetypes of Femininity” is the theme of Cristian Ianculescu’s show at Waverly Street Gallery, but the artist individualizes his sculpted women with a variety of styles and materials.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017
The assumption of material form individualizes the idea.
From The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science by Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins) Carpenter
“We believe individualized neoantigen therapies have the potential to redefine how patients with completely resected stage IIB-IV melanoma are treated.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Meta "did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires," the 71-page complaint said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The evidence offers a compelling explanation for why some damaged valves may deteriorate faster, but it does not replace imaging, clinical evaluation, or individualized decisions about antidepressant treatment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
In 2024, the FTC asked eight companies to disclose how they used technologies such as AI and advanced algorithms to target individualized prices to customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
They do not seem to realize that there are two ways a person is individualized.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
“I think every single one of our routines, BJ did an incredible and phenomenal job of individualizing them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
But if we don’t openly talk about climate anxiety as something that is not only normal but also expected, we run the risk of further individualizing the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Can we avoid individualizing oppression and not use the movement as our personal therapy space?
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
They do a good job of individualizing instruction and enrichment.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
This was the too great individualizing of one point in a character, and the making the man or woman nothing but a blunderer, a lover, a coxcomb, a tyrant and the like.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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